MINE, Inc. and MINE Innovation Engineering GmbH

About The Fund

MINE and Reality Ventures provide a unique vertically integrated corporate ecosystem for the creation of technology companies. It offers strategic and financial investors cost-effective, lower risk technology innovation with higher ROI. A five-stage targeted innovation engineering and technology company creation process called IP Mining:tm: covers the entire path from the original invention at the core of a new technology to the successful establishment of a company for bringing the corresponding products to market. The MINE group of companies, consisting of MINE Holding GmbH, MINE Innovation Engineering GmbH and its subsidiary MINE Inc. in San Francisco, and Reality Ventures Beteiligungs GmbH were founded and established in Berlin in June/July 2013 by the innovator and entrepreneur Rolf Herken together with the company Dassault Systèmes International S.A.S. as founding partner and first strategic investor. MINE and Reality Ventures provide a unique vertically integrated corporate ecosystem for the creation of technology companies. Headquartered in Berlin with main research and development centers in San Francisco and Berlin, the two companies are bringing some of the world’s brightest minds together to develop completely new, high impact technologies with extremely low overhead in the shortest possible time. They design, build and develop platforms and solutions that operate on a massive scale to benefit millions of people. MINE and Reality Ventures also provide the corporate and financial framework for the successful implementation of a new, highly efficient funding model for start-ups that benefits both innovators and investors. While scientists and engineers will be freed up to put their talent to work on innovative solutions without distraction, it is expected that in return for the funding of this ecosystem, significant strategic advantages and exceptionally large returns will be generated for the strategic and financial investors in Reality Ventures. How it works: Most ideas in technology do not materialize out of the blue. They are the result of intellectual and technological processes that happen over long periods of time. They can be localized and discovered based on knowledge of these processes and subsequently be mined efficiently. It is not efficient to stumble around and pick up gold nuggets by chance. Unlike traditional early stage venture capital fund-based approaches which invest in multitudes of start-up companies with minor variations of relatively simple but unproven ideas, the targeted innovation generation at MINE aims at creating start-up companies with relevant products that are biased toward high growth and a lower investment risk. MINE provides a unique opportunity for brilliant innovators and highly talented, experienced engineers to develop and pursue a product idea that excites them in a largely pressure-free environment, with competitive pay and benefits plus the guarantee that they will own a significant share of their start-up. Once their idea is proven feasible, it can be commercialized without having to spend their own funds, precious time or emotional capital hunting for financial backers. Reality Ventures funds MINE, which in turn provides intellectual, corporate, financial and legal support for the engineering project teams. To maximize success rates, MINE and Reality Ventures have devised a five-stage IP Mining:tm: process: Innovation, Ingeneering:tm:, Incubating, Investing and Implementing. Ingeneering:tm: is the targeted creation of proof-of-concept and prototype technologies by MINE’s ingenious engineering talent. It is the key stage of the IP Mining:tm: process. Once each proof-of-concept technology is validated, typically within 18 to 24 months, a start-up company is formed with the option for the engineers to join and own a significant share of their start-up company at low personal risk. The MINE group of companies operates in the form of transcontinental teams led by accomplished innovation and business executives who guide the project teams, guarantee a smooth business operation, and ensure the timely creation of the resulting start-up companies initially funded by Reality Ventures. The model leverages the experience and insight of the strategic investors into innovation and engineering for a vast range of industries and customers to advise MINE and help the company to select its innovation engineering projects wisely. It also leverages effectively the cash reserves of these investors for targeted innovation engineering projects and the funding of the resulting technology companies without increasing their operating expenses and hence without decreasing their earnings per share. At the same time, it allows the strategic investors to share the associated risk with a group of large financial investors while having a first right of refusal on the resulting companies. In return, these financial investors will greatly benefit from the higher likelihood of success resulting from the new model. The shareholders of Reality Ventures will be a group of up to five strategic corporate and financial investors. The strategic investors in Reality Ventures automatically have the Right of First Refusal for each start-up company funded. The shareholders in Reality Ventures decide about each investment in a start-up company by consensus in an Investment Board. Reality Ventures does not operate like a venture fund with a fixed fund volume committed up- front in full by the investors. Each shareholder in Reality Ventures commits to invest, by means of incremental capital increases, a maximum of $25m in Reality Ventures. 40% of the maximum investment amount shall be invested by Reality Ventures in MINE. 60% of the maximum investment amount shall be invested by Reality Ventures in the start-ups. Proceeds from the sale of Reality Ventures’ portfolio companies will be re-invested to fund new or advance existing companies generated from MINE, limiting the required overall investment by the partners. Reality Ventures expects that the market will attribute highly attractive valuations to a majority of its portfolio companies resulting in successful exits with high investment returns. MINE and Reality Ventures expect to deliver an ROI well above the industry average for venture capital funds. Targeted Industries and Domains: MINE innovation engineering projects are initially focused on the development of fundamental scalable platform solutions for cloud computing - Data and process distribution - Secure communication and transaction processing - Image processing - Data analytics - Visualization - Simulation - Artificial intelligence and on related cloud-based consumer and professional applications. Innovation engineering projects may also be focused on - Application-specific processor logic design - Neural computing - Robotics - Energy - Life Sciences and Medical Technologies. Some of the technological challenges that could be tackled in MINE Innovation Engineering projects are - cloud-based professional environments for product creation and delivery - cloud-based digital transaction technologies and platforms - cloud-based technologies and platforms for security and privacy - cloud-based intelligent support systems - cloud-based future-generation telecommunication technologies and platforms. With sufficient funding, MINE could also tackle these problems - revolutionary (computer) processor architectures and manufacturing processes - scalable technologies for cost-efficient, sustainable energy creation Current Status: Dassault Systèmes International S.A.S. is the first strategic investor in Reality Ventures. The initial investment of Reality Ventures in MINE funds the targeted creation of several large- scale, confidential proof-of-concept prototypes. Once validated internally, these projects will be turned into valuable start-up businesses funded by Reality Ventures. MINE’s current core team of ten seasoned executives and widely respected engineers includes - Rolf Herken, CEO and CTO, MINE - Peter Mehlstaeubler, COO and Managing Director of MINE, Berlin - Larry Tesler , MINE Chief Experience Officer - Rebecca Tredway, COO MINE of San Francisco - Karen Kuehnert, CFO of MINE - Gary Yost, VP Engineering Management of MINE, San Francisco In addition, MINE will hire more than twenty scientists and engineers within the next six months. MINE foresees the creation of additional subsidiaries in other locations with a high density of engineering talent. For more information, please visit www.MINE.com.